July 13, 2014

Robert Kennedy Jr's "Goomah" List - Mmmmm, lucky guy, we think

America's experience with the Kennedy dynasty has shifted from awe to entertainment. And the genre for that is soap opera.

The New York Post gleefully reports that Robert Kennedy Jr.'s phone has a "goomah" list. "Goomah" is the Italian word for "mistress." There are 43 names on the list, including those of the woman he is to marry and the one he will be deposed in court about. The others are suspected to be women he was involved with sexually. Here is the coverage.

A sign of shifting values since Camelot, most of us sort of envy the guy, not respond with disbelief or condemnation. Sex, even the seeming compulsive kind, has become so common on the menu of pleasures we expect. If Kennedy has been ordering up more than the American average, we shrug, "Lucky guy."